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...Englishmen are greatly worried over the sale of English art treasures to U. S. millionaires, who have bought $60,000,000 worth of British paintings and other art works since the War. Many connoisseurs look to the Government to stop the alarming export of English Art by some embargo similar to that in effect in Italy. But Premier MacDonald said (at the recent banquet of the National Gallery Centenary celebration) that private subscription was the only thing that could save English Art for England...
...Cambridge team, representing the Cambridge Debating Union, crosses the Atlantic before college opens this fall, going first to Canada, where it will tour and debate for two weeks. Entering the United States about October 15, the Englishmen will go as far south as New York City and then turn back north into New England. Harvard or Bates will be the last debate on the cambridge schedule. The Englishmen return to England on October...
Captain Pfaffmann, Ingraham, and Briggs will sail on June 5 to prepare for the Harvard-Yale versus Oxford-Cambridge tennis match scheduled for August 2 to 4. Before this annual contest, which the Englishmen won last year, the Harvard team will play about ten matches in and near London. The international encounter will consist of 21 matches, each player participating in two singles and three doubles matches...
...which the lion had been feasting, was saved and mounted as a souvenir. Ralph Paine's comment, when the tale was told him at Mombasa, was that meeting a lion on the third green would have put him off his game at least two strokes a hole. The unemotional Englishmen who had to play the lion as-an extra hazard, of course resumed their match as if nothing had happened...
...Cortissoz answered, "for education rests entirely in the individual. It is wholly in his power to cultivate his mind and imagination or not. It is true, however, that Englishmen graduate from their colleges really educated. They learn from what I call the habit of mind, but only because the tradition of learning in English colleges is deeper than here. I am strongly in favor of a purely elective system of education, where the student is given a great deal of freedom...